Old Home Town - 25 years ago

Kansan Gary Hart had a second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and said he believed he had recognition as the only alternative to former vice president Walter Mondale. “I believe things are shaping up for a good two-person race,” said Hart, an Ottawan.

A screening board was being set up to handle the search for a successor to the resigned Carl Knox as local school superintendent. Knox was retiring in the spring.